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PRESS RELEASE:
.CO General Availability Phase Now Open at EuroDNS
Create your opportunity today!


EuroDNS is glad to announce the opening of the General Availability period for .CO domain names.
Register today any .CO domain names for 24 Euro by clicking here, and benefit from the promotion.
The general availability corresponds to the opening of the .CO to the general public. All available .CO domain names can now be registered on a first-come, first-served basis

.CO is a unique opportunity offering registrants a new experience in the branding of their online presence. The .CO extension is assimilated to the notions of visibility, international and credibility. There is a strong sense of attractiveness in these two letters extension and .CO is also highly related to social networks. .CO works perfectly with words such as “COmpany”, “COrporation”, “COmmerce”, “COtent”, “COnnect”, “Communicate”, “and COllaborate”.

Xavier Buck, comments “We are happy to be part of the .CO new era, and offer our customers the possibility to register .CO domain names and thus consolidate their portfolio. We did already open a .CO pre-registration period for the general availability one month ago and it now officially open.  .CO is considered to be the world’s next premier web address. There are lot of opportunities associated to such an extension so don’t miss this new trend!”. 

.CO is more than the top level domain for the Republic of Colombia and enjoys liberal domain registration policies with no domicile or burdensome requirements for example.


For more information, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Columbia/Co

EuroDNS Partners with Open-Xchange to Provide Hosted Groupware

250,000 customers of EuroDNS get Open-Xchange webmail and PIM at no additional charge


LUXEMBOURG, June 30th, 2010 – Open-Xchange, a provider of business-class open source e-mail and collaboration software, announced today an agreement with EuroDNS, a domain name registrar specialized in international domain extensions, to offer hosted e-mail and collaboration.

Within the next month, more than 250,000 customers of EuroDNS will get both Open-Xchange webmail and PIM (Personal Information Management) at no additional charge with an option to move to full groupware, as well as support for mobile devices.

“Our SME (small- and medium-size enterprise) customers have been asking us for hosted applications to improve their office communication and securely store their documents,” said Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS. “Open-Xchange is the ideal platform to extend our application services from hosting to SaaS. Open-Xchange provides unmatched user experience and features, along with a very attractive price point for our customers."

"Open-Xchange helps service providers to gain competitive advantage and significantly grow profitability,” said Rafael Laguna, CEO of Open-Xchange. “By leveraging our Open-Xchange software, EuroDNS will strengthen their relationship with existing customers, increase their average revenue per user and attract new customers."

Open-Xchange software integrates e-mail, calendar, contact and task management with advanced groupware features such as information management and document sharing. Productivity is enhanced through unique teamwork features, like team view, single-password document sharing, and shared calendars, contacts, tasks and documents.

With recently introduced “Social OX” features, Open-Xchange also gives users the ability to consolidate any kind of existing webmail accounts — for example from Google and Yahoo — into a folder in Open-Xchange so they can be managed more easily. In addition, contact details from social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn or Xing can be added automatically to the Open-Xchange address book — giving users easy access to the latest contact information within their personal network. Users can now integrate and merge their address books from Google Mail and Facebook into Open-Xchange, as well.

Open-Xchange is used by more than 15 million users worldwide as hosted and on-premises business-class e-mail and groupware.


About EuroDNS
EuroDNS is a Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions. Based in Luxembourg with branch offices in Europe, the U.S. and Asia with AsiaDNS, EuroDNS serves a large variety of clients ranging from SMEs to some of the world’s largest Domain Investors and offers dedicated naming solutions to trademark holders. By strongly participating in leading industry forums including ICANN and the International Trademark Association, EuroDNS seeks to promote e-Commerce and wider Internet adoption. For more information, visit www.eurodns.com.


About Open-Xchange
Open-Xchange is the innovator of scalable and integrated open source e-mail and collaboration solutions for enterprises, academic institutions, and government authorities. The company provides on-premises versions called Open-Xchange Server Edition and Open-Xchange Appliance Edition, along with Open-Xchange Hosting Edition, which enables web hosting companies to provide an easy-to-use and feature-rich application delivered as Software as a Service (SaaS). The Open-Xchange Hosting Edition is architected to integrate into a hosting provider’s existing infrastructure, such as authentication, provisioning, billing, and e-mail storage and does not require that these systems be replaced.

Open-Xchange AG is a privately-held company headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany with offices in Olpe, Germany and Tarrytown, N.Y. For more information, visit www.open-xchange.com.

.CO Landrush Phase Now Open at EuroDNS

Luxembourg, June 21st 2010 - EuroDNS is glad to announce the opening of the .CO Landrush phase. The pre-registration is also open for the General Availability period.

The Landrush period gives the opportunity to anyone interested in securing a short and memorable domain name of high commercial value to submit an application before the General Availability begins. An auction will be used in case of matching domain names.

.CO is a unique opportunity offering registrants a new experience in the branding of their online presence. The .CO extension is assimilated to the notions of visibility, international and credibility. There is a strong sense of attractiveness in these two letters extension and .CO is also highly related to social networks. .CO works perfectly with words such as “COmpany”, “COrporation”, “COmmerce”, “COtent”, “COnnect”, “Communicate”, “and COllaborate”.

Xavier Buck, comments “The .CO landrush is the next step in the .CO launch.  This extension is opening a new era and considered to be the world’s next premier web address. We are offering you the possibility to also pre-register your .CO domain name for the General Availability phase”. 

.CO is more than the top level domain for the Republic of Colombia and enjoys liberal domain registration policies with no domicile or burdensome requirements for example.

There are two launch phases for the .CO domain registration process. These phases are the Landrush and General Availability.

Landrush, from June 21st to July 16th , 2010 – The landrush is a period during which interested parties can seek to register priority domains not previously registered or reserved by the Registry or Restricted by Policy. An auction process will be used to allocate domain names in the event that more than one applicant applies for the same domain. Due to its early-bird status, Landrush Registration is subject to an increased price, directly determined by the Registry. This is why a yearly premium registration fee of €260 will be charged on top of the non refundable €10 validation fee.

General Availability is starting on July 20th, 2010 – The general availability is the date when .CO opens to the general public, and available .CO domain names can be registered on a first-come, first-served basis. The yearly fee will be of €28.

For more information, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Columbia/Co

Today, DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, made of the well known Datacenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS and voipGATE, reaches a milestone as it celebrates its 10 year anniversary.

Headquartered in Luxembourg, DCL Group has managed to position itself strongly on the European map and also across the oceans in its respective fields of expertise: Datacenter and Infrastructure, Domain Names, Telecommunication and VoIP.
With the recent creation of LuxCloud, DCL Group is opening a new era and positioning itself as a leader and key Internet player within the Grand Duchy and Europe.
Xavier Buck, Founder and CEO of EuroDNS, comments “These 10 years have been exciting and challenging. We have had hectic and interesting moments throughout the years. Thanks to the commitment and belief of a number of actors, as well as strong operational teams, we have achieved our goals. Internet is a fast moving world and we are completely in tune with it ”
It all started with the meeting of two completely different characters, Marco Houwen and Xavier Buck who decided to change the Internet world. They were ready and eager to become pioneers and open new eras. They started their journey with the creation of Datacenter Luxembourg (www.datacenter.eu) in 2000, which became an independent and leading datacentre service provider. In just a few years and thanks to constantly improving infrastructure and connectivity within the Grand Duchy, Datacenter Luxembourg expanded within the European scene with a large panel of services.

Only 2 years later and in the wake of the .EU domain name extension, Xavier Buck decided to take over the domain name world and he created EuroDNS (www.eurodns.com), a worldwide domain name registrar. Today, EuroDNS counts more than 300 extensions and is much more than just a registrar. EuroDNS covers all aspects of the industry: the primary market with its large panel of extensions worldwide; the secondary market targeting domain name investment and auctioning with Domain Invest (www.domaininvest.lu); the online brand management with its corporate arm eBrand Services (www.ebrandservices.com), helping some of Europe’s largest companies to develop and strongly position their brand on the Internet; the media side with the management and deployment of the domain name news portal, DomainNews (www.domainnews.com);  the domain name recovery side with DomainRecovery.com, which provides an online step-by-step solution to the domain recovery needs; major tools such as domain history, monitoring, ownership search, mark alert and typo squat domain finder, thanks to the participation of EuroDNS in one of the top 200 most trafficked websites in the world, Domain Tools (www.domaintools.com).

Following the new technological trends and the telecommunication industry, Xavier and Marco created voipGATE (www.voipgate.com) in 2004. voipGATE rapidly became a unique and leading Operator in Voice over IP by offering telecommunication services and local Phone Numbers across the world. voipGATE also created strong partnerships with PBX key brands and various mobile devices. The insurance of flexibility, reliability and ease of use are truly part of voipGATE’s goals and values.

Marco Houwen concludes, “We couldn’t have written the last 10 years differently and I am proud of what we have achieved and where we stand today. With our constant willingness to create, reach, innovate, and be successful, the next 10 years will surely be full of surprises and new challenges. And we are ready!”

 See you in 2020!

EuroDNS is proud to announce the opening of IDN.tel, which allows the registration of .tel domain names in sixteen different languages.

The IDNs give companies and individuals the chance to register domain names that contain non-Latin characters under the .tel domain. All registrations will be on a first-come, first served basis. One and two character IDN.tel domains will also be available.

Register today and benefit from our 50% promotion. Use the promocode TELGOIDN, valid until July 15th, 2010.

The languages selected by the .tel registry, Telnic, are as follows: Chinese, Danish, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. More languages will follow based on demand and possibilities.
 
Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS, notes “The introduction of IDN.tel is part of our willingness and efforts to offer a maximum of IDNs, whenever it is technically possible and for any domain name extensions in which IDNs are available. We have recently launched IDNs in .LU, .PL, .EU, .DE, .COM and .NET, and the list will keep expanding this year. Please stay tuned!”.

Over 275,000 .tel names have been registered in just under one year of their availability. .tel domain names have essentially attracted businesses and individual professionals wanting a single branded place online without the hassle of building and maintaining a traditional website to look again at this cost-effective and innovative service.

“With the launch of IDN.tel names, individuals and organizations in many more countries can now benefit from a simple, single and professional point of contact that they can share with friends, colleagues and customers and which is instantly formatted for any device connected to the internet,” said Justin Hayward, Communications Director at Telnic Limited. “With its low cost, ease of setup and support for multiple languages, a .tel name is an incredibly accessible and beneficial tool to enable people to connect in the way they want to, both locally and worldwide.”

 To celebrate the start of the Football World Cup in South Africa, we are happy to announce a promotional campaign on any CO.ZA domain names registered from today until the end of the summer.

Get your CO.ZA for only 8 Euro, using the promocode WC2010, valid until end July 2010.

Enter the South African domain name space and actively participate to the football World Cup in South Africa. Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNs, says “This is your chance to gain great visibility during the World Cup and position yourself right under the glare of the spotlights by getting your .CO.ZA domain name today! For the occasion and to celebrate this fun sporting event, you can now get a 50% discount on any domains registered in the CO.ZA extension”.
.za is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for South Africa and the .CO.ZA is largely used for commercial purposes.
At the same time, you can also consolidate your domain name portfolio by choosing between the 250 and more extensions that EuroDNS offers, from generic extensions (.com, .org, .net…) to country code ones (.DE, .BE, .FR, .NL…).

For more information on EuroDNS’s services and any partnership possibilities, please go to: www.eurodns.com

 

EuroDNS/AsiaDNS is glad to announce the launch of a great promotional campaign for any .ASIA domain names registered or renewed today until end of August 2010. 
It is your chance to get your .ASIA or renew it for only 9 Euro, using the promocode REASIA9.

dotAsia has reached around 300,000 names registered since two years now, and .Asia has become a significant extension worldwide for e-commerce and visibility, with coverage of 70 countries, from the Middle East, to the Far East and Oceania regions. 


Leona Chen, DotAsia Organisation Ltd., explains, “Having a .Asia web extension makes it easier for people to find you online, because it improves search engine ranking organically for searches related to Asia. Besides, .Asia web address is a natural fit for your Asian content or target market. Another important point is that every .Asia registration helps fund community work in Asia”.      

     
Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS/AsiaDNS, comments, “the landrush renewal period is under way and it is important to act as soon as possible, using the 50% discount we are offering you this summer. We strongly believe in the strength of the .ASIA extension as it provides a perfect way to reach the Asian market and offer you the possibility to position your brand. Don’t miss this”.
Xavier also adds, “We are currently going through Landrush renewals, a lot of good names may become available again.  Get your .Asia web extension today!”
 For more information and to register your .Asia, go here:
www.asiadns.com 

Luxembourg May 18th, 2010 – EuroDNS, a worldwide registrar, and its corporate branch, eBrand Services, will be participating to the International Trademark Association’s must-attend Annual Event held in Boston, starting on May 23rd until the 26th. This Annual Meeting is a major event in the intellectual property field, with numerous educational programs, workshops, trademark and law sessions focusing on International topics. Xavier Buck, CEO of EuroDNS comments, “It is the third time we will be present at INTA and we are delighted to meet with IP professionals willing to learn more about domain name management and protection. One on one meetings and demonstrations will take place at our booth. A member of our corporate branch, eBrand Services, will also be present with more to tell about efficient portfolio management, brand protection, cost savings and the dotBrand project. We will also take this opportunity to launch our new service focusing on domain name recovery www.domainrecovery.com. We are looking forward to meeting you at booth 642!”. DomainRecovery.com has gathered years of legal expertise and key partners in the Internet community to provide an online step-by-step solution to your domain recovery needs. From the first alert to the final transfer of the domain, everything is included. The dotBrand project is part of EuroDNS and eBrand’s ongoing efforts to follow the drastic evolution of the Internet world and guide customers into the new gTLDs’ world. This new evolution will not only allow companies to turn their brand into a domain name, or to create dedicated Internet spaces for large product groups and countries, but also to be part of the new gTLDs strategy, by having dedicated sub domains. The new gTLDs will open up the Internet to a new platform for innovation, diversity, e-business and competition. INTA’s exhibition hall will gather more than 90 exhibitors featuring new products and cutting-edge demonstrations. The networking opportunities are numerous, which makes the INTA Annual Meeting the only place to meet thousands of IP experts and stay current on trademark developments. Don’t miss this opportunity, come along to booth 642! About EuroDNS EuroDNS is a Domain name Registrar specialized in International Domain extensions. Based in Luxembourg with branch offices in Europe, the USA and Asia with AsiaDNS, EuroDNS serves a large variety of clients ranging from SMEs to some of the world’s largest Domain Investors and offers dedicated naming solutions to Trademark holders. By strongly participating in leading industry forums including ICANN and the International Trademark Association, EuroDNS seeks to promote e-Commerce and wider Internet adoption. www.eurodns.com About eBrand Services eBrand Services acts as consultant for some of Europe’s largest companies willing to develop and strongly position their brand on the Internet, thanks to its expertise in domain names management and strategies. eBrand Services has offices and local expertise all around Europe. www.ebrandservices.com Contact on the booth for One to One meetings: Jean-Christophe Vignes – Executive VP and General Counsel, EuroDNS/eBrand Legal Services Melanie Delannoy – Marketing & Communication manager, EuroDNS Espen Falkenhaug – MD, eBrand Services NL

Get your .EU and .AT for only 8 Euro.
Use promocodes: 8AT5 and 8EU5!

Register for the .CO Sunrise Today & Pre-Register for the Landrush and Go Live

Luxembourg, April 29th 2010 - EuroDNS is glad to announce the opening of the .CO Sunrise phase, reserved for holders of Trademarks to enable them to register the corresponding .CO domain names on a priority basis. The pre-registration is also open for the Landrush and General Availability periods.
To benefit from this priority period and secure your .CO, register your domain name today at EuroDNS for €260.  
.CO is a unique opportunity offering registrants a new experience in the branding of their online presence. The .CO extension is assimilated to the notions of visibility, international and credibility. There is a strong sense of attractiveness in these two letters extension and .CO is also highly related to social networks. .CO works perfectly with words such as “COmpany”, “COrporation”, “COmmerce”, “COtent”, “COnnect”, “Communicate”, “and COllaborate”.
Xavier Buck, comments “.CO is opening a new era and considered to be the world’s next premier web address. We are proud to be part of the .CO Sunrise registration period and we are also offering you the possibility to register for the Landrush and General Availability phases. We will also be providing some promotional prices, so stay tuned at EuroDNS”.  
.CO is more than the top level domain for the Republic of Colombia and enjoys liberal domain registration policies with no domicile or burdensome requirements for example.
There are three launch phases for the .CO domain registration process. These phases are known as Global Sunrise, Landrush and General Availability.
Sunrise for trademarks registered globally, from April 26th to June 10th, 2010. The Sunrise Process was created to allow trademark holders to prevent the abusive registration of domain names for which they hold rights. This sunrise gives the holders of certain eligible registered trademarks the right to apply for the .CO domain names corresponding with their trademarks before the registration of domain names under the .CO TLD is open to the public at large. The registration fee of €260 is non refundable and there is an extra €28 per year.
Landrush, from June 21st to July 13th , 2010 – The landrush is a period during which interested parties can seek to register priority domains not previously registered or reserved by the Registry or Restricted by Policy. An auction process will be used to allocate domain names in the event that more than one applicant applies for the same domain. Due to its early-bird status, Landrush Registration is subject to an increased price, directly determined by the Registry. This is why a yearly premium registration fee of €260 will be charged on top of the non refundable €10 validation fee.

General Availability is starting on July 20th, 2010 – The general availability is the date when .CO opens to the general public, and available .CO domain names can be registered on a first-come, first-served basis. The yearly fee will be of €28.
For more information, please go to: http://www.eurodns.com/top-level-domain/Columbia/Co